TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pakistani police have arrested several people suspected of involvement in last week’s Peshawar school massacre.
Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudry Nisa Ali Khan said the arrested men were “facilitators” in the attack, which killed 141 people, including 132 children.
He added that intelligence indicated another attack was in the planning. "We are receiving intelligence from across the country that the militants are getting ready for another savage and inhuman counter-attack,” he said as quoted by BBC on Monday.
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) attacked a military-run school on December 16. Seven of the attackers were killed.
TTP said the attack was in revenge for an army assault in the north-western region near the border with Afghanistan.
One day after the attack, Pakistan lifted a moratorium on its use of death penalty by hanging. The lifting will enable Pakistan to impose death sentence in terrorism-related cases.
After the lifting, Pakistan has executed four men convicted of involvement in a plot to assassinate then President Pervez Musharraf in 2003. Two men were also executed on Friday.
Pakistan imposed death penalty moratorium in 2008 and only one had been executed since then. There were more then 8,000 men sentenced to death in Pakistan. Around 10 percent of them were linked to terrorism.
BBC | ROSALINA
